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You’re working on your law school applications, and you run into some kind of ambiguity: does the law school want three pages of personal statement (as per the LSAC application instructions) or “no more than two pages” (as per the law school’s FAQ page)? Do they want an...

Once your applications are in – including your letters of recommendation, Dean’s letters (if necessary) and transcripts, you get to relax a bit. You will want to check in with each law school to make sure that they have your complete application, if you haven’t already heard from...

For as long as anyone can remember, the LSAT has been offered four times a year, and while annoyingly restrictive, this provided a certain rhythm to the application cycle. All that changes this year. As I write this, many of you are taking the unprecedented July LSAT. More changes are...

Q: All my applications are in. I sent in my financial aid applications and my FAFSA too. Is there anything I can do while I’m waiting to hear? Should I follow up with a phone call to the admissions offices? What does it mean that...

Until there’s a better waiting song, I’m sticking with Tom Petty to make my point. Except we should change up the lyrics a bit: the wait list is the hardest part.
You can find my basic advice for what to do when you find yourself on a wait...

When you meet with your professor, internship supervisor or boss to ask for that recommendation, make it easy for them to say “No.” According to a new survey of law school admissions officials conducted by Kaplan, fully 87% said that they had received negative letters of recommendation for applicants. This should...

You’ve just received your June LSAT score, and it’s not what you’d hoped. What’s next for you — a retake in October or December, applying with the June score, or putting off law school for another year?
To seriously answer the question of whether you should retake...

I’ve come up with a little to-do list for those of you currently in the application process. Let’s be clear: this is no time for procrastination. I’ve already heard from several applicants who have not only completed their applications, but received offers of admission. If...

Perhaps something like this has crossed your mind in the last 48 hours or so:
“Omigod, there’s no way I’m gonna get my applications in by Thanksgiving like the pre-law advisor told me to, and now I’ll never get into law school, and my life is ruined, and...

One of the most enjoyable parts of the annual pre-law advisors’ conference is hearing law school admissions officials share their craziest application stories—personal statements, follow-up emails and other applicant encounters that are so unimaginably outrageous that the panel is titled “You’re Not Going to Believe This.” The behavior...